Drawing current posttraumatic stress disorder models into the cultural sphere: The development of the 'threat to the conceptual self' model

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 368-381

  Jobson, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; PTSD; Self

Indexed keywords

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL VALUE; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; IDENTITY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREAT;

CULTURE; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 67349174224     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: 18737811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2009.03.002     Document Type: Review

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